Wednesday, June 25, 2008

IKEA IN JAPAN

I waited forever for IKEA to come to Japan. The Kobe store opened up in April, so me and Kayo and Daniel decided to check it out. Brought the wheels so we could stock up with some goods, because damn its hard to carry Ikea stuff on the train. So we followed the signs and ran into some traffic. Then more and more traffic. All the cars were going to IKEA, crazy! With two lanes of traffic we waited an hour just to get into the fuckin IKEA parking!!! Crazy Japan!! Then after parking just to get in, what do ya know, there was another line to just get in the store. The country of long lines I tell ya. All the floors were packed with people just trying to get in. We decided to go to the 5th floor to try the shorter line, and after another 30 minutes just standing outside we finally reached our destination inside IKEA! Of course it was just as crazy inside, looked like something like opening day, but it wasn't, opening day was 3 months ago, this was just a normal day. Looked like the IKEA back home, but everyone was Japanese, and there was an added bling bling cafeteria, guess to cater to the posh people and downstairs was the cheap eats including yummy hot dogs and ice cream. After wandering through the crowds finally settled on some new lamps, cookies, candles, and some other random goodies. At the end it was about 9:30pm, a long time after our 3:00 start time. Well you gotta do what you gotta do to get your IKEA goods.

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